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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Lissaboner Vertrag Case (Ger)

Germany [de]

Justin Collings

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]
Article last updated:
February 2020

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 11 December 2024

Subject(s):
Constitutions and international law — Constitutional courts/supreme courts — Comparative constitutional law — International organizations

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 On 30 June 2009, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany (Bundesverfassungsgericht) (‘Court’ or ‘Constitutional Court’) issued its much-anticipated judgment on the Lisbon Treaty (123 BVerfGE 267 (2009) (Ger)). The Court ruled, with caveats, that Germany could, consistent with its national constitution (the Grundgesetz (‘GG’) or Basic Law) (Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany: May 23, 1949 (as Amended to July 11, 2012)), accede to the Treaty. As a contemporary editorial observed, the judgment contained—and still contains—‘the most elaborate and...
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